Reading and Roaming
CULTURE NOTES Over its three-week run, the Sarasota Music Festival brings rising young musicians to town and pairs them with faculty from the orchestra and various conservatories for a series of chamber and full orchestra concerts. Friday night’s concert included an exquisite performance of Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring. This is a piece we know very …
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HUMAN BODY SCULPTED Like Life: Sculpture, Color and the Body. This exhibit at Met Breuer of people from about 1300 to the present takes up two floors of the museum. Classical sculpture of human figures was done in marble, almost always white. This exhibit explores examples of white sculpture, but also instances of tinted figures and …
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READING ROUND-UP JAN.-MARCH 2018 In the first quarter, I read all novels except for one memoir As it happens, the novels were all written by women with the exception of Wells’ 1909 novel. And that book is about a modern woman. To read my review of any of these titles, just key in the title …
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MY FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2017 I’ve averaged reading about a book a week this year, mostly novels and a small selection of memoirs and other nonfiction. Here are my favorites in no particular order. What were your favorite reads this year? I’d love to hear from you! FICTION Most Inventive Novel: The Underground Railroad by Colson …
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